Job Creation

Shaun Bailey: How many jobs have you created for each year from May 2016 to present? Please specify through which schemes the jobs were created.

The Mayor: The figures below are estimates of jobs that can be directly attributed to the listed programmes. They do not include apprenticeship starts as this information was not requested. The programmes are also likely to have a much wider impact on job creation, such as through putting in place infrastructure and other foundational arrangements that encourage new businesses to be established and enable existing business to grow. There are other programmes not listed above that support the Mayor’s strategic objectives to promote the right conditions for good growth across the capital and the creation of jobs. It would require significant resources across the GLA group to collate and assess all this data, which is why it has not been provided here.
Available data on jobs created from a number of Mayoral programmes and organisations that the Mayor supports is set out in the table below.
Programme
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
To March 2020
ERDF Projects*
-
-
-
-
2,788
Film London
4,185
5,709
6,527
12,118
28,539
Growing Places Fund
9
382
2,003
324
2,718
High Streets Fund
22
84
65
1
172
LEAP**
177***
84
3,720
2,705
6,686
London & Partners
10,112
11,868
4,455
3,559
29,994
Mayor's Regeneration Fund
126
-
125
-
251
MedCity
39
10
14
25
88
Royal Docks
-
-
-
24
24
TfL Supplier Skills Programme
352
1,331
1,406
1,812
4,901
* It is not possible to provide an annual breakdown due to the way figures are reported. ERDF projects will continue to deliver until 2023, so we anticipate further net job creation to be reported.
**LEAP projects will continue to deliver over the coming years, so we also anticipate that further job creation will be reported for LEAP investments as these projects progress and complete. These figures include all LEAP funded programmes- Good Growth Fund, Skills for London Fund and others.
*** the jobs figure includes data from the 2015/16 financial year, which it is not possible to exclude due to the way it was reported historically.